Executive summary by darmansjah
Monemvasia is a town
and a municipality in Laconia, Greece. The town is located on a small island
off the east coast of the Peloponnese. The island is linked to the mainland by
a short causeway 200m in length. Its area consists mostly of a large plateau
some 100 metres above sea level, up to 300 m wide and 1 km long, the site of a
powerful medieval fortress. The town walls and many Byzantine churches remain
from the medieval period. The seat of the municipality is the town Molaoi.
The town's name derives from two Greek words, mone and
emvasia, meaning "single entrance". Its Italian form, Malvasia, gave
its name to Malmsey wine. Monemvasia's nickname is the Gibraltar of the East or
The Rock.
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